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Australia's once influential business lobby is now 'completely outgunned' by trade unions and left of centre think tanks, according to a growing force in conservative policy development and debate. The Liberal Party-aligned Menzies Research Centre has reignited questions about schism ...

Masha Alyokhina is collaborating with Natalia Kaliada and Belarus Free Theatre on the play Burning Doors which explores her own imprisonment in Putin's Russia as well as the stories of fellow dissident artists Oleg Sentsov and Petr Pavlensky. ABC veteran Mark Colvin has written a book, Light and ...

The history of the green-black alliance in contemporary Australia is a story of affinity and conflict, of success and failure. A new book seeks to shed light on some of the controversies and divisions within the alliance. Unstable Relations brings together a range of social scientists, ...